• Title/Summary/Keyword: English vocabulary learning

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Effects of Using Gamification-Based Quiz on Recalling Formulaic Sequences (게이미피케이션 기반의 퀴즈 활동이 정형화 배열 회상에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Ji-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.589-596
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to investigate the effect of an educational gamification-based quiz on the recall of formulaic sequences (FS). The experiment involved 87 freshmen enrolled in general English classes at a university in Seoul. As material, EFL textbooks based on content from popular franchises, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Twilight, and Harry Potter, were used. The experiment was carried out as follows: first, vocabulary learning, second, reading comprehension, and third, writing. The fourth activity proceeded differently in two groups. The experimental group used gamification-based quiz to practice FS, whereas the comparison group summarized the reading. FS was evaluated using meaning recall and form recall. Consequently, no difference was found between the groups on meaning recall tests of FS, but the experimental group had a significantly higher average score than the comparison group on the post-test on the form recall of FS.

An Experimental Study on the Performance Improvement of Automatic Classification for the Articles of Korean Journals Based on Controlled Keywords in International Database (해외 데이터베이스의 통제키워드에 기초한 국내 학술지 논문의 자동분류 성능 향상에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Pan Jun;Lee, Jae Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.491-510
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    • 2014
  • As a major factor for efficient management and retrieval of the articles in databases, keywords are classified into uncontrolled keywords and controlled keywords. Most of Korean scholarly databases fail to provide controlled vocabularies to indexing research articles which help users to retrieve relevant papers exhaustively. In this paper, we carried out automatic descriptor assignment experiments to Korean articles using automatic classifiers learned with descriptors in international database. The results of the experiments show that the classifier learning with descriptors in international database can potentially offer controlled vocabularies to Korean scholarly articles having English s. Also, we sought to improve the performance of automatic descriptor assignment using various classifiers and combination of them.

Network Analysis between Uncertainty Words based on Word2Vec and WordNet (Word2Vec과 WordNet 기반 불확실성 단어 간의 네트워크 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Go Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.247-271
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    • 2019
  • Uncertainty in scientific knowledge means an uncertain state where propositions are neither true or false at present. The existing studies have analyzed the propositions written in the academic literature, and have conducted the performance evaluation based on the rule based and machine learning based approaches by using the corpus. Although they recognized that the importance of word construction, there are insufficient attempts to expand the word by analyzing the meaning of uncertainty words. On the other hand, studies for analyzing the structure of networks by using bibliometrics and text mining techniques are widely used as methods for understanding intellectual structure and relationship in various disciplines. Therefore, in this study, semantic relations were analyzed by applying Word2Vec to existing uncertainty words. In addition, WordNet, which is an English vocabulary database and thesaurus, was applied to perform a network analysis based on hypernyms, hyponyms, and synonyms relations linked to uncertainty words. The semantic and lexical relationships of uncertainty words were structurally identified. As a result, we identified the possibility of automatically expanding uncertainty words.